Near
future, vampires had made their presence known to society and a young girl
starts a relationship with one of them.
Certainly
there must be a space for an adult version of Twilight. The problem is how to
distinguish it from the young girl’s favorite movie when the base love story is
factually identical. Of course you could employs good writers and simply do a
compelling and realistic story but why bother with all of that when you are HBO
and so you can simply add tons of steamy sex.
In every
single episode there is some sex, and I’m not taking about your simple
missionary position style, here we go from S & M moments with chains and
handcuffs all the way to virtual sex while high after a dose of vampire blood,
V.
Now I
imagine that the creators of this stuff wanted it to be edgy but after the
first moments, when is slightly off putting, it becomes terribly fun in a campy
sort of way. Like when David Caruso on CSI Miami takes off his sunglasses while
pretending to be really cool but in reality he is so so terrible.
The sex
aside this series is actually fairly interesting. The setting, rural Louisiana
is a breath of fresh air compared to the countless times that we saw Los
Angeles and his ilk.
The only
stand out character is the flamboyant homosexual Lafayette while the rest of
the cast is either too bland or simply unlikable. For something about vampires
we really don’t see a lot about their world, a part from a very good sequence
at the vampire tribunal. Actually the whole season looks like a long introduction,
with a lot of plot lines that meander without really going anywhere.
At least is
entertaining, we’ll see how the second season will shape up.
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